Bono (Musician)

New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013: Drew Barrymore Hits Rag & Bone; Tess Giberson's Must-Have Leggings; Bono Spotted at EDUN; Creatures of the Wind Bring Candy; Blonde Redhead Play at Rachel Comey

When we arrived for check-in at rag & bone on Friday night, the woman behind the table asked, "Are your hands cold?" "How could you tell?" we said as we shook a layer of heavy snow from our hat. And that was when she gave us a black squishy thing. Yes, it was a hand warmer. Call us easy, but we w ... More >>

New York Fashion Week SS13: Liberty Ross Models at Alexander Wang's Glow-in-the-Dark Show; Edun Attracts Alicia Keys, Michael Stipe, Gina Gershon, and a Couple of Strokes

"Alicia! Alicia! Over here!" shouted the front-row photographers at Alicia Keys, who had just arrived at Moynihan Station to see the EDUN show. Decked out in sunglasses, a white blouse, and white jeans with black tuxedo stripes, she pulled another woman with long brown hair into the shot. "Who's th ... More >>

Forbidden Broadway Is Alive And Kicking!

If you really love Broadway like I do, you'll adore the show that reams it a new one, then kicks it in the pants. It's Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking!, the latest installation of the spoofy revue that mocks the truly annoying things about Broadway because deep down, you have to know and love ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 18-24, 2012

Live: U2 Keep On Keepin' On At The Meadowlands

U2 w/ Interpol New Meadowlands Stadium Wednesday, July 20 Better than: ...the real thing? Every day, you presumably go to work, and sit in a cubicle or in an office. You work on a desktop, check some blogs, IM with your friends, and small talk with co-workers. You do this competently and consist ... More >>

'Spider-Man' Review: I'm Buggin'!

Musto's verdict on the retooled musical

Six Great Musical Moments From The "Law & Order" Version Of New York City

Mike Logan and Lennie Briscoe: Not so into rap-metal. ​The news that Law & Order: Criminal Intent would be ripping all those headlines about the struggles of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark for an upcoming episode was notable for its lightning-quick turnaround time, and for its fictionalized tak ... More >>

A Plan To Fix Charlie Sheen's "Violent Torpedo of Truth" Tour

​Apparently, they're going to close down for three weeks starting later this month. A new director is being brought in, someone who's done lots of arena shows. A playwright is coming in to doctor up the script.

Spider-Man Commercial Fudges The Quotes

​I'm sure the producers of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark would love to just write all new reviews, but instead, they've simply done some creative editing on the existing ones. As Broadwayworld.com points out, the show's commercial makes the best out of a critical onslaught.

All of the Mean Words in the New York Times Review of the Spider-Man Musical

​Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark sounds like a disaster. Practically a national tragedy at this point, the new, super-expensive musical has yet to be officially released, trapped in the purgatory of "previews," in which a Broadway show works out all of its kinks. This one might be hopeless, if early ... More >>

This Spider-Man Musical Is Never Going to Open, Is It?

​Stop trying to make the "Spider-Man" musical happen. It's not going to happen. The troubled production (formally called Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, with music from the minds of U2's Bono and Edge) is still in previews, but has pushed back its opening from the scheduled Jan. 11 to "sometime in ... More >>

Will Spider-Man Fly?

​It sounded good on paper: Julie Taymor. Bono and The Edge. A Marvel comic classic. But the reality is that superheroes generally don't fly on Broadway, unless you count Thoroughly Modern Millie, ba-dum-pum. And when a show is so elaborately technologically based, there are bound to be majo ... More >>

At 16, Jay-Z Would've Robbed Coldplay's Chris Martin: "Who Are You? Give Me Your Money."

​A quick sequel to yesterday's investigation into Jay-Z's chronic misadventures in the rock and roll world. Some wag in England had the bright idea of asking Jay how he would've reacted to meeting current best pal Chris Martin 24 years ago, back when Shawn Carter was 16. His answer probably wi ... More >>

The Spider Man Broadway Musical is Finally On The Way

​After way too many delays and hold-ups and people not believing this thing is going to work at all, the Spider Man musical (entitled Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark) with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge of U2 and with a book by Julie Taymor (who did The Lion King which is AMAZING) finally ... More >>

Obligatory Weekend Awkward Collabo Video Roundup: Conan O'Brien and Friends Say Farewell to the Tonight Show with "Freebird"; Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Bono Do Damage During the 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon

It took braver men than us to sit through the entirety of the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon--our taste for artist self-martyrdom/self-aggrandizement is minimal, and since we have no desire to talk to George Clooney or Stevie Wonder personally on the telephone by way of giving money to a desperatel ... More >>

Video: Jay-Z featuring Swizz Beatz, "On to the Next One"

What Julianne said--sculpture-collecting rappers of the future defile simulacrum versions of peak-bloat art market follies, paint on valuable cars, recollect Heath Ledger's death mask Joker. Over a Justice sample. Symbolic, see, because that's the last decade and this video was released minutes in ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 2: Artists Against AIDS Worldwide, "What's Goin' On (Fred Durst's Reality Check Mix)"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Super lame songs by charity "supergroups" have been the most expensive form of self-parody ever since Bob Geldof scribbled the word "Do" in "Do They Know It's Christmas." Since its mid-'80s "We Are The World... A ... More >>

Childsplay

'25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Benefit Concert'

How Can They Save The Spider-Man Musical?

​A blockbuster franchise. A Broadway visionary at the helm. (Julie Taymor). Two of the best known songwriters of our time. (Bono and The Edge). How could it fail? And yet, SpiderMan: Turn Off The Dark recently pulled the plug--temporarily, mind you--as the reported $45 million production sear ... More >>

David Byrne Praised as Both a Fader Icon and the 15th Sexiest Frontman in Rock 'n' Roll History

Our old friend David Byrne, still prancing about multiple continents in support of his splendid Brian Eno collaboration Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, is also being praised for various past accomplishments. First comes the new Fader issue, in which he is given the same Icon treatment gra ... More >>

No U2 Schadenfreude, Baby

A mediocre album from this band is bad news whether you're a lover or a hater

What Are Your Favorite One-Hit Wonder Hits?

You know, the smash songs from performers that quickly fell through the trap door into oblivion. Here are mine: "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band. A sweet litle ditty about midday shtupping. So bad it's good. "Toy Soldiers" by Martika. I love anyone with one name, except Bono. And someo ... More >>

On U2's "Get on Your Boots"

The first thing to understand about any new U2 song is these guys are still apologizing for Pop, i.e. that album from 1997 dismissed by everyone as "electronica" and marred by terrible singles ("Discothèque," oy) and an accompanying tour wherein the boys performed whilst perched on a giant mirror ... More >>

LET'S DANCE

Put on your ballet shoes and dance the blues

Bono to Free-Write for Times

Spider-Man Broadway Musical Budgeted at $40 Million

Clinton Global Initiative: Sweet, The Press!

Before the Riot: Scenes from the Clinton Global Initiative Day 1

ROOFTOP OASIS

A tiny gathering of vast proportions

In the Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2

Thank you for talking to Africa, Bono

U2 3D

Proof that Bono and his bros don't need a giant lemon to dominate the stage

Weird, What Is That?

It's spacey local rockers the Secret Machines, opening their new album cycle by making a movie

Morning Report 12/19/05
Guise of the Year

Bono Fide Rock

Following U2, from Apartheid on Long Island to a Garden in Midtown

Faith, Hope, and Bono

Anthemic Christians range from altar calls to extreme pessimism

Remote Patrol

Morning Report 6/22/05
I'm With the Band!

Trent Reznor Checks His Pain and Hate Into the Old Rage Home

Screen Gems

The year in TV: Another season, a smattering of reasons for tuning in amid all the mediocrity

No More Than a Feeling

Rock's most self-assured advocates of grandeur affirmatively affirm their own affirmation

Indecent Exposure

Really F-word-deleted brilliant: If anyone gets annoyed by anything, it's profane!

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Letters

Citizen CEO

The WEF's Corporate Moguls Debate Their Role as Unelected World Leaders

A-OK

The Promise of Prague

Bankers, Bono, and Bomb Throwers Battle It Out on the Streets of the Czech Republic

Music

The Style Bible